The U.S. has strongly denied recent reports that it planned to topple the Bolivian government.

The South American nation is nevertheless still calling for investigations into cables leaked by WikiLeaks, which purport to reveal the U.S. had plans in 2008 to either topple the government or allow for the assassination of its popular socialist leader Evo Morales.

As reported in teleSUR, Bolivia’s minister of the presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, responded to news of the alleged U.S. plot.

“This requires an in-depth investigation,” the minister said. “We need to do an investigation to subsequently take decisions with regard to the United States government.”

The cable leaks were recently published in WikiLeaks’ new book, “The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire.”

Ramon Quintana explained the gravity of the revealed information, saying, “Tacitly it is a supported description of the destabilization strategy of the United States that ranged between a coup and the assassination of President Morales.”

An update by teleSUR reports that a representative for the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia called the WikiLeaks accusations "absolutely false and absurd."

"The government of the United States was not involved in any conspiracy, attempt to overthrow the government of Bolivia or assassinate President Morales," the spokesperson said. "This kind of unfounded allegations does not contribute to improving bilateral relations."

Fears of U.S.-backed attempts to topple Latin American nations are not uncommon.

A 2008 WikiLeaks release included a report that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused the United States of being behind a plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

The RT reports current Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro claims to have hundreds of emails proving that members of the State Department were part of a conspiracy to oust his government and assassinate him.

In 2014 Argentine leader Cristina Fernández de Kirchner hinted that the U.S. might be out to get her in a televised speech. As reported in the Guardian, she said, “If something should happen to me, don’t look to the Middle East, look to the North.”